Boy Saved After Six Hours in Sea

An eight-year-old Israeli boy was found alive after six hours floating at night in the Dead Sea.

The boy went missing on a family trip to the water, the lowest point on Earth and one of Israel’s most popular tourist attractions, where an abnormally high salt concentration allows swimmers to float on the surface.

Shneur Zalman Friedman, from an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Jerusalem, was at the sea with his father and two brothers on Thursday evening when strong currents swept him far from shore.

His father noticed he was missing at around 7pm, sparking a frantic search involving a police helicopter and dozens of workers combing the shoreline and criss-crossing the sea in motorboats.

Workers were discussing calling off the search minutes before volunteers in one of the boats spied the boy floating in the water two miles offshore six hours later.

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